Why doesn't Firefox show the correct default select option?

Question

I\'m making a web app to manage product SKUS. One part of that is to associate SKUs with product names. On each row of a table, I list a SKU and display a

Answer 1

I had a similar problem, but after adding autocomplete="off" HTML attribute to every select tag it worked. [I was using Firefox 8]

Answer 2

An easy way to prevent Firefox from caching the last selected option is to remove all of the option elements on page unload. For example (assuming jQuery):

$(window).unload(function() {
  $('select option').remove();
});

Answer 3

Firebug has a cache disable function for exactly this scenario.

The deeper long-term solution is to work out how set no-cache headers server side. What web server are you using?

Answer 4

Firefox preserves your selected form elements when you refresh. It's intentional. Ctrl+F5 is a "hard" refresh, which disables this behavior.

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Or Command+Shift+R if you are on a Mac

Answer 5

I make it worked by putting the autocomplete="off" on the hidden input.